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      <h2 class="zTitleChapter"><a name="428167">Displaying&nbsp;Data in&nbsp;Charts</a></h2>
      <p class="b_Body"><a name="428170">You use the same kind of data sources for a chart as you do for other report items. You can open a connection to a data source and create the data set for a chart from the Data Explorer, or you can use an existing data set. You learned to create a data set in </a><a href="gs-TutT4BuildADataSet.html#138709" title="Build a data set">Task 4: “Build a data set”</a> in <a href="gs-Tut1BuildingASimpleListingReportIntro.html#316810" title="Building a simple listing report">Tutorial 1: “Building a simple listing report.”</a> The next section describes how to specify a data set used by another report item or a container.</p>
      <p class="b_Body"><a name="390027">How you retrieve and arrange data in a chart can be different from the way that you use data elsewhere in BIRT. </a></p>
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